Ex-IGP Ibrahim Idris returns to village as new wife pockets family assets in Abuja

Mr. Idris had a rough tenure as police inspector-general, but his retirement has proven even more bewildering for his family.



Ibrahim Idris has seen better days, and his friends and family are trying to help. Yet they’re conflicted on where to begin.

Within two years, the former police inspector-general has gone from being amongst Nigeria’s most powerful to freeloading in the palace of Emir of Bida, Peoples Gazette can report based on information from police and family sources.

Mr. Idris’ family accused Asta, a retired police helicopter pilot he married in 2017, of taking over the assets he had laboured to acquire all his life; while also ruining his life by subjecting him to physical and psychological ordeal.

They have now triggered a judicial process to get Mr. Idris out of the relationship. But, first, they want to ensure that his assets are not entirely depleted before the final court resolution on the marriage.

In an interview, Mrs. Idris admitted to the Gazette that a divorce process was underway, but said she was still in love with her husband and family assets were properly preserved.

Yam and oil diplomacy
The crisis between Mr. Idris and his wife has brewed modestly since their elaborate wedding ceremony in early October 2017. Top politicians, including Rochas Okorocha, were present at the event when the former police chief received blessings for his new wife from Southern Kaduna.

The ceremony was held barely a few months after Mr. Idris started dating the then-deputy police superintendent who trained at the aviation college in Kaduna.

Mr. Idris, 61, sought to quickly elevate his newfound lover as a police superintendent, but this was frustrated by the service commission, police sources said. Mr. Idris then asked her to abandon her career altogether in the police pilot wing under operations department, sources said.

He subsequently took her as his new wife and rented a new apartment for her in Abuja. A few months after his new marriage, Mr. Idris had a clash with his first wife, a career legal practitioner and head of police wives association at the time, sources said.

Mr Idris asked the first wife to move out of the official police quarters the family was occupying in Maitama at the time, after which the new wife moved in.

Prior to his retirement, Mr. Idris had acquired new assets, moving into one of them when he left official police quarters for the new inspector-general in January 2019.

But Mr. Idris’ family said he never enjoyed his marriage to Asta, who sought regularly to punish the former police chief with physical and mental assault.



“Every time she would lock him inside a room,” a family source said.

“After many hours and noises from our brother, she would then feed him yam and palm oil to calm him down.”

The family sources, who spoke under anonymity because of the ongoing divorce, said Mrs. Idris’ treatment of her husband left him “physically and mentally” ill for too long.

The families said Mr. Idris was finally rescued three weeks ago from their home on Nile Street, Maitama, and taken to his hometown in Bida for “proper care.”

“We got the blessings of the emir to bring him back to the village,” a source said. “And the emir has been taking care of his feeding allowances.”

Mrs. Idris was also accused of changing titles of assets acquired by her husband and they had to use the police to recover some cars from her recently.

“When we brought the former IG back to the village, we took him to elders for traditional healing,” a source said. “She had cleaned him out of everything — mentally, physically and financially.”

A husband stolen
Family sources said they had kept him in a safe place pending the conclusion of divorce at a court in Abuja.

A police source said it was appropriate for the family to claim the three children they both had together to prevent them from emulating Mrs. Idris’ controversial lifestyle.

“She scattered the police officers’ wives association while she was then, which led some members to boycott activities of the organisation,” a police source said. “It is okay for the court to give the custody of the children to the husband’s family.”


(Asta Ibrahim Idris arriving Edo state to donate items by the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

But Mrs. Idris insisted she had no issues with her husband but only his family. She also said she has been working to rescue her husband from his family, whom he accused of “stealing” him from her.

“As far as I am concerned, there is no divorce,” Mrs. Idris said. “They brought court papers but my husband said he did not approve any divorce papers.”

Mrs. Idris also said she sent three cars to her husband when some family members came to ask for it, although family and police sources strongly refuted this, saying the vehicles were forcibly recovered from her.

She said the family “locked” her husband “in the house and ran away with the keys” in the village, making it difficult for her to return him to their family assets she had been preserving in Abuja.

“The lawyers said that they cannot deprive him of his constitutional rights to move about,” she said.

She told the Gazette she has not seen her husband since he was removed from Abuja three weeks ago, but she did not clarify where she was when her husband was being moved. Family sources Mr. Idris was locked at home and alone when they rescued him in Abuja three weeks ago.

“The family people have issues with me but me and my husband have no issues without ourselves,” Mrs. Idris said. “I am still in my husband’s house.”

“They served me a court order that there is a divorce and I told them I am still married to my husband,” she said. “They cannot do this.”

Every little helps
Mr. Idris’ relatives and Force Headquarters associates told the Gazette they have been working to see how they could help improve his life.

His tenure as inspector-general between March 2016 and January 2019 was sullied by a pack of low points for the police.

Several citizens were arrested in brazen abuse of fundamental rights and corruption cases against him and other police chiefs were summarily hushed.

But police chiefs told the Gazette they could not abandon Mr. Idris despite his “failed leadership” and had already intervened in the matter by getting Inspector-General Mohammed Adamu to frustrate further depletion of his assets by his wife.


(Asta Ibrahim Idris and Johnson Kokumo, Edo police commissioner.)

Police sources said Mr. Adamu had already helped secure the release of three vehicles from Mrs. Idris, including a bullet proof SUV.

“We want to help him because we believe every little helps, but we are confused about where to start because of how bad his life has become,” a police chief said. “The police blocked Asta from accessing a bank account with some money inside, but we are not even sure if this will be enough to help our former oga’s life.”

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Seems karma has been paying back Mr transmission, transfusion, confusion.

You send away your first wife ... As a senior police officer what kind woman you have not seen before, maybe na charms.
You think she was impressed the way you sacked your first wife for her....

Is it the same ever-aggressive, loquacious, weed-smoking, maverick IGP Ibrahim Idris Kpotum that they are talking about as he is an invalid? It is either karma came smiling or Saraki and Dino Melaye went on a long distance journey across seven wild forests and seven rivers for him.

That woman doesn't seem like someone that has ever held the steering controls of a helicopter before,talkless of flying one.
It's only a picture of her in a helicopter flying one that would convince she is a hands on pilot,instead of a mere paper qualified one.

Damn! imagine a former IGP of Nigeria becoming homeless with nothing, God forbid!

Do u mean a whole IG suffered domestic violence


Indeed this life no balance

Lock him up

Then feed him yam and palm oil to calm him down.

This got me

Transmission Transmission.
All the Benue farmers he allowed Fulani herdsmen to kill are now tormenting him through Madam Asta

Saraki is still giving this guy transmission signals.

Is that not Mr. transistor

From IGP to yam & palm oil eater.

This life get k-leg

sapientia:
Lock him up
Then feed him yam and palm oil to calm him down.
This got me

Walahi very hilarious

So he was already mentally ill when he was saying transmission transformer transgressions etc..
The same man Buhari gave order to stay in Benue and disobeyed when there was incessant killings by the herdsmen in d state...

These days KARMA no get patience at all o

She's very beautiful

Obviously this former police chief has mental illness and it didn’t start today. No wonder our police force is in rags. The family are trying hard to avoid going straight to the point about that.

This one don chop better charm

Nemesis of his incompetence and corrupt practices just caught up with him in his home! This is just the beginning as more affliction will come to him and other political rulers holding this country to ransom!!

wetin totoooooooooo%[I de do man no be small

If you have never fcked a Southern Kaduna girl , you no go understand .

Best kpekus I ever had.

Meteng:
She's very beautiful

I swear .

This is my spec.

Tall, dark, curvatoues and beautiful.

na wa ooo

How true is this news, the most corrupt IGP in the history of the police.

He must have planted an evil seeds.

well it's good to hear from both sides.
but for the third wife to hijack the post of leader of powa from the first wife, it's shows just how dangerous she is and she can get..

make the IG better do DNA.
e fit shock am say no be him children..

I cannot transmit any transmittable pity on this confusion transmission omission of a man.

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After transmitting, KARMA shows forth

I have noticed that most police men have serious marital issues always. abeg make una dey careful.

Following

The story sweet, I say make I read finish before commenting. It felt like I was reading a novel

If he couldn't contol his house, how could he contol national security while he was IGP, no wonder he was always on transmissions,
little wonder why our police system is full of madmen and financial hunters,

God airpus....

I cant Commission or transmission my comment

Righteousness89 Talk something put for d matter abeg